Word: halts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets have launched some three dozen nuclear satellites over the past two decades. Altogether they contain almost 3,500 lbs. of radioactive fuel. The only way to halt that proliferation would be to make space nukes an issue in U.S.-Soviet arms-control talks. Warns Brown: "If we don't stop the use of nuclear-power sources traveling over our heads, we're likely to wake up one day with a nuclear reactor landing on our heads...
Controversy over the merits of CLS--which holds that the law is skewed to reflect the existing distribution of economic wealth--has divided the faculty in recent years, often bringing the tenure process to a halt. Left-wing, right-wing and moderate professors have aligned themselves in hostile camps, with Clark leading the criticism of the radical scholars...
Alaskans were relieved to be rid of the worst of the freeze, but it would take weeks to assess the toll on the state. Schools closed, businesses ground to a halt, and hardy villagers huddled in their homes to keep warm. Furnaces shut down as heating oil turned to jelly, and stoves stood idle as propane gas liquefied. The greatest hardships occurred in central Alaska, where normal food deliveries were cut off. Governor Cowper called out the Air National Guard to parchute supplies into remote villages...
...anyway. I think that in the '90s we'll probably see a good bit of relearning, even though it might seem boring. It's in the attitudes of college students now. I sense they are already voluntarily putting the brakes on the sexual revolution -- not screeching to a halt, and not just because of AIDS...
...Healy says that the same people who complain about his role also want the best school and health systems, the lowest property taxes and a halt to development...